Reporting channels & reporter experience
How this is scored
The intake side: how a reporter actually submits — web form, anonymous dialog, phone/voice, languages, accessibility — and whether anonymity survives first contact.
0 — A web form that is an email in disguise: no anonymous route, no way to reach the reporter afterwards.
3 — An anonymous form exists but the dialogue ends there — no secured mailbox for follow-up questions, few languages, desktop-only.
5 — Anonymous two-way dialog via a protected mailbox, a usable set of languages, mobile-friendly; voice or phone intake missing or an add-on.
8 — Multiple channels (web, voice message or hotline, QR entry points), broad language coverage with translation support, accessibility considered, and the anonymous dialog is first-class rather than bolted on.
10 — Intake engineered around the frightened reporter: every channel anonymous-capable, dozens of languages, WCAG-conscious, no app install or account required, and the vendor documents how the reporter's identity is kept out of the channel itself.
The Skeptic
Breadth is real — web, app, SMS, phone, live chat, hotline and 70+ languages — but the privacy policy quietly demotes anonymity to a client-granted option ('may be granted by the Client the option to remain anonymous'), which is anonymity as a toggle, not as engineering. Nothing documents how the reporter's identity stays out of the channel metadata, and accessibility/WCAG is entirely unevidenced. 1 2 4 5